Teddy Tahu Rhodes

About Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Tahu Rhodes studied with Mary Adams Taylor, Rudolf Piernay, and David Harper. In 1999 Tahu Rhodes represented New Zealand in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. He made his Australian debut in 1998 as Dandini in La cenerentola with Opera Australia.

He has sung in several world and Australian premiere performances such The End of the Affair (Bendrix) and Dead Man Walking (Joe) by Jake Heggie, The Little Prince by Rachel Portman (The Pilot) as well as in Nigel Butterley’s Spell of Creation and Barry Conyngham’s Fix. His wide variety of other opera roles have included Mozart's Count Almaviva, Guglielmo, Papageno and Don Giovanni; Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Belcore in L'elisir d'amore; Billy in Billy Budd; Lescaut in Manon Lescaut; Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire; Escamillo in Carmen; Al Kasim in Henze’s L'upupa; Silvio in Pagliacci, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos and Leandro in The Love for Three Oranges.

Amongst the prominent opera companies and theatres in which he has performed are Opera Australia, San Francisco Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Washington National Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Dallas Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.